[ale] Character-mode PDF reader?

Greg runman at speedfactory.net
Thu Apr 22 15:11:56 EDT 2004


Would Ghostview/Ghostscript be of any use ?  I think it requires an X11
window, but I haven't played with it in a really long time.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> Christopher Fowler
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:20 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Character-mode PDF reader?
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 14:14, Fulton Green wrote:
> > I've gotten several emails in the past few days with Acrobat/PDF
> > attachments.  Since my email reader is Mutt, accessed remotely, I don't
> > really have an option to launch a GUI-borne PDF reader.  So has anyone
> > out there heard of a character-mode PDF reader for full-screen
> consoles?
>
> convert it to text using pdftotext then view it.
>
> >
> > TIA
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